J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches at Windsor; Addresses; Arithmetic &c (Inscriptions by Turner) c.1815-16

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches at Windsor; Addresses; Arithmetic &c (Inscriptions by Turner)’ c.1815-16
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 90 Verso:
Sketches at Windsor; Addresses; Arithmetic &c (Inscriptions by Turner) circa 1815–16
D10573
Turner Bequest CXL 82a
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 155 mm
Inscribed by Turner ‘Ploughing | Hay ricks’ below image top left, ‘Red’ below image upper right of centre, ‘Cumberland Lodge’ below image top right, and with addresses, accounts &c (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Windsor Castle in this sketchbook and a connection with Turner’s watercolour (British Museum, London)1 made in the late 1820s for Picturesque Views in England and Wales, see note to folio 9 verso (D10427).
Turner’s inscriptions read: ‘2 Southampton Ter[race]’ and ‘Mr Duval 2 Clonmel/Clarence | Pl Ter’ right, descending vertically, ‘Westall 150’ right of centre, descending vertically. The last name is presumably that of the artist William Westall (1781–1850) who joined with Turner in the syndicate of shareholders for Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England.2 Turner owned a Descent from the Cross by Westall’s half-brother Richard (1765–1836).
There is also some arithmetic. At left, running vertically:
1      10  
        1     6  
1      10     0  
        1  
        2     6  
2      15     0  
At right, descending vertically:
 75  
 25  
100  
 
 80  
 18v
 98v
 40  
130  
There are also separate numbers, ‘2’, ‘7’ and ‘6’. There is more arithmetic facing on folio 91 (D10574; Turner Bequest CXL 83).

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.397 no.829.
2
Ledger Book of John Murray, ‘A’, p.1; Eric Shanes, Turner’s Rivers, Harbours and Coasts, London 1981, p.156 note 12; Richard J. Westall, ‘The Westall Brothers’, Turner Studies, vol.4, no.1, Summer 1984, pp.32, 37 note 96.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Sketches at Windsor; Addresses; Arithmetic &c (Inscriptions by Turner) c.1815–16 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketches-at-windsor-addresses-arithmetic-c-inscriptions-by-r1131567, accessed 23 April 2024.